Themed Literature Kit: Earth Day All Week

Engage your students ALL WEEK with resources to celebrate Earth Day and build a community of Earth Heroes. You may choose to complete all five lessons throughout the week, or select individual lessons that best meet the needs in your classroom!

What is a Themed Literature Kit (Lit Kit)?

Each kit is designed as a complete guide that includes everything you’ll need to engage your students in a week of learning, centered around a fun and engaging theme! The lessons promote connections between nonfiction and fiction literature. Each kit includes lesson plans, activities, anchor chart kits, crafts, and more! All kits are core-aligned to standards in grades Kindergarten through 3rd grade. You’ll find that there’s so many differentiated options included in each kit, allowing you to select the activities that best meet the needs of your students!

What books will I need that align to this kit?

What Does It Mean to Be Green?, by Rana DiOrio

Dear Earth...From Your Friends in Room 5, by Erin Dealey

Little Turtle and the Changing Sea, by Becky Davies

Rocket Says Clean Up, by Nathan Bryon

What skills are covered in this Themed Lit Kit?

Lesson 1: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Lesson 2: Dear Earth

Lesson 3: Story Elements & Retell (Little Turtle & the Changing Sea)

Lesson 4: Story Elements & Retell (Rocket Says Clean Up)

Lesson 5: Inspiring Others

***Note: Each of these lessons can be taught in isolation or as a series of lessons across the entire week!

How can I implement these activities into my classroom?

You may choose to teach the lessons in a whole group or small group setting. The printable activities can be completed whole class, individually in centers, as partner-work during work time, or within small groups! The variety of differentiated options also allows you provide a similar task to students at various reading levels that will best fit individual learning abilities.

What materials are included in this kit?

• Lesson Overview with Core Alignment (Includes Direct Links to Core Standards for K-3)
• 5 Core-Aligned Lesson Plans
• Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Chart Kit (Color & Black/White)
• Dear Earth Chart Kit (Color & Black/White)
• Story Elements & Retell Chart Kit 1 (Color & Black/White)
• Story Elements & Retell Chart Kit 2 (Color & Black/White)
• Did You Know? Chart Kit (Color & Black/White)
• Vocabulary Cards (with real photos)
• Vocabulary Practice Pages
• Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Practice Pages
• Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Foldable
• Dear Earth Printables
• Dear Earth Craft
• Retell Craft (Little Turtle & the Changing Sea)
• Story Map Printables (Little Turtle & the Changing Sea)
• Retell Printables (Little Turtle & the Changing Sea)
• Retell Craft (Rocket Says Clean Up)
• Story Map Printables (Rocket Says Clean Up)
• Retell Printables (Rocket Says Clean Up)
• Did You Know? Poster Project

Note: Each of the activities listed above comes in several differentiated options!

Click on the preview for this resource to see a closer look at all that is included!

(Important Notice: All character clipart and story retell clipart for the stories in this kit bare similarities to the original story, but are not exact replicas. The characters were hand-drawn with several differences to the original characters and have been adapted using my own design style. The clipart images were placed together to retell the story events without replicating any exact images from the story as to adhere to copyright laws.)